Re: [PATCH v13 00/16] Enable FSGSBASE instructions
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: 2020-06-18 18:08:49
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On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 7:18 AM Thomas Gleixner [off-list ref] wrote:
Sasha, Sasha Levin [off-list ref] writes:quoted
Changes from v12: - Reformat the series to be closer to the reverted codebase for easier review. - Drop a few of the changes introduced in v8 and v9.I've pushed the lot out to git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86/fsgsbase Thanks for taking this up!
Is there a plan to deal with:
/*
* This function has some ABI oddities.
*
* A 32-bit ptracer probably expects that writing FS or GS will change
* FSBASE or GSBASE respectively. In the absence of FSGSBASE support,
* this code indeed has that effect. When FSGSBASE is added, this
* will require a special case.
*
* For existing 64-bit ptracers, writing FS or GS *also* currently
* changes the base if the selector is nonzero the next time the task
* is run. This behavior may? not be needed, and trying to preserve it
* when FSGSBASE is added would be complicated at best.
*/
in arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c?